HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Wedding cakes and free speech

Written July 6th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Oregon law, according to Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, says that if you make cakes as a business, you must make one for a gay wedding even if you oppose gay weddings. But you don’t have to be quiet about it. The First Amendment protects your right to speak out, as affirmed in the same-sex marriage ruling the […]


What, no ‘rational purpose’?

Written April 21st, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Oregon’s attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, a Democrat, has taken the unusual step of asking a federal court to throw out a law passed by Oregon voters on the grounds that the law is legally indefensible. Based on that standard, the voter-approved law on marriage would not be the only law that the attorney general could […]


 
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